My friends brother had a drawfull of this strange flamable stuff he called "bad news" it burns brightly with a large flame and burns underwater. He said it was made out of "wax and suger in the right proportions" with n oxidisor. Any1 know if this is true or if it isnt wat it realy is.

it was probably waterproof matches. actually, i have no idea what it was. it could be black powder coated in wax, or it could just be magnesium.

Probably sugar and potassium permanganate(?) mixed and poured into melted wax. Sounds to me like it should burn underwater if you don't use too much wax. Sugar and potassium permanganate, I've heard, are a good load of fun on their own.

����Just wax and sugar won't burn very well. It certainly won't burn underwater. There has to be some kind of oxidizer in the stuff for it to do that.

~Zero

I knew it had an oxidiser in but i didnt think it could just be suger, wax, oxidser seems to simple it was might good stuff.

wax will make it float. I might try some of this out. wax kno3 and sugar or pot perm. i dont know. il tell u if i find something

It doesn't float thats why i said it burns under water. But tell me if you ind out what the hell it is

Is it powder? Chunks? Blocks? If it's powder, I have no idea. If it's chunks or blocks, it could be just about anything, coated in something like nitrocellulose, maybe with a weight in it.

or it could be something that lights o fire when water is poured on it. negative x, sodium potassium, and there are a few others.

I tryed sugarkno3 and wax. It went out as soon as it touched water.

Tell him/her that the good people at the TOTSE call him a stinking lyer!

I didn't think he was telling the truth its kind of crystals in wax, kind of

maybe he binded sugar and potassium nitrate to look like crystals. i dont know, and i dont care anymore